Sailboats. Colonia

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Cutters 1893-1937

Colonia


Designer:   Nathanael Green Herreshoff
Owner:   Syndicat composé de Archibald Rogers, John E. Brooks, William K. Vanderbilt, F. W. Vanderbilt, J. Pierpont Morgan et F. Augustus Shermerhorn
Skipper:   Capt. Hank Haff
Launching:   May 15, 1893
L.O.A.:   126' 4
L.W.L.:   85.48'
Beam:   26'
Draft:   14' 7"
Mainmast:   76.27'
Mainboom:   100.15 '
Maintopmast:   56.88
Maingaff:   55.22
Displacement:   138 T
Sail area:   11,355 sq ft

The 85' steel cutter Colonia was built in 1893 by the Herreshoff Company for owners Archibald Rogers, J. Pierpont Morgan, F. W. Vanderbilt & W. K. Vanderbilt as a candidate for the defense of the 1893 America's Cup. It barely lost to Vigilant in the trials to defend the 8th America's Cup in 1893 with Captain Hank Haff. According to Americascup.com, "Vigilant won the 1893 American selection trials for the Cup defence and had beaten Colonia, Jubilee and Pilgrim."

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1900 renamed Corona
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